"Did they have an internal conflict?" The fisherman also came over, looking at the dismembered corpse on the ground with a puzzled expression.

"Hard to say." Sun Hang shook his head, "There are no traces of a fight at the scene... Of course, it's also possible this isn't the actual crime scene."

Sun Hang looked around. To enter this house, besides the door and windows, there was only a staircase leading to the second floor. There were no blood stains by the door and windows, only on the staircase, where a dried blood trail extended all the way to the corpse.

"I'll go check upstairs," Sun Hang said.

"I'll go with you!" The fisherman gripped the short knife in his hand tightly.

Sun Hang didn't refuse, moving toward the stairs first.

The second floor was a narrow corridor, with four windows facing the street on one side and three small rooms on the other side. These rooms had no doors installed. When a flashlight was shone inside, everything was clearly visible.

The doorways of the three rooms were stained with blood. Sun Hang checked each one and found the dismembered parts of the Hunter scattered "equally" among the three rooms.

"Damn, it's really spread evenly," the fisherman remarked with a peculiar expression. "The perpetrator must have obsessive-compulsive disorder or be a psychological deviant..."

"Not necessarily a deviant." Sun Hang shook his head, "I think this might be some kind of mysterious ritual."

"A mysterious ritual?" The fisherman was startled, "Are you suggesting... a sacrifice?"

Sun Hang nodded and then shook his head again, "It's just a guess."

"If it's a sacrifice, why would it be here when this small building has nothing special about it?"

"Wait for me." Sun Hang said, entering the first room to count the body parts inside, then doing the same in the second and third rooms.

"What are you looking for?" the fisherman holding the flashlight couldn't help but ask from the corridor.

"Including the parts downstairs, the body is still incomplete." Sun Hang frowned, "Missing two eyeballs, one ear, three fingers, the heart, and the ascending device."

"Do these missing parts have special significance?" The fisherman was completely baffled.

"The wristband is still here, though." Sun Hang stretched out his hand, revealing a Hunter wristband stained with blood.

"A wristband is useless to us; we can't find out this Hunter's identity, let alone his dossier and abilities," the fisherman said helplessly, spreading his hands.

"There might be a way to discover his cause of death," a thought popped into Sun Hang's head, leading him to return inside the room, crouch down, and press his palm against a piece of the corpse.

His back turned to the fisherman, fungal mycelium stealthily extended from his palm into the corpse from a concealed angle.

The Hunter's death occurred some time ago; Sun Hang could no longer sense that infected aura... How much of the deceased's memory could be retrieved this way was uncertain, even to Sun Hang.

After a few seconds, Sun Hang abruptly stood up, quickly walking toward the stairs.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, what are you in such a hurry for? Can you say something?" The fisherman followed him, looking anxious, "You're scaring me. Don't go crazy like that woman!"

Sun Hang failed, but he suddenly realized he still had one more chance.

Within this small building, another infected aura lingered, albeit one that's gradually dissipating.

This male Hunter died some time ago, but the female Hunter Sun Hang just defeated wasn't completely cold yet.

She still retained "active" memetic imprints, and using Taotie's abilities to devour these might also grant part of her memories.

"Feed on the corpse," while it's still warm.

Amid the fisherman's and Shino's bewildered and shocked gazes, Sun Hang opened up the female Hunter's abdomen, thrusting his entire palm into the still warm cavity.

"It's over, Sun Hang has gone mad too!" the fisherman said on the side, "His actions are just like that madwoman's—a replica!" "Stop shouting, I'm trying to find something!" Sun Hang turned to glare at him, "I'm not crazy, don't point a gun at my head!"

"What are you looking for..." Shino lowered the gun, "Inside this person's stomach... Did she swallow something?"

"Just keep quiet." Sun Hang said.

The mycelium penetrated into the flesh and rapidly spread throughout the limbs, frantically devouring the eerie memetic imprints left within the female Hunter, enabling Sun Hang to quickly grasp a new ability.

This ability originated from a tool-like eerie object, a curved dagger handed down from the Ayyubid Dynasty period. It could multiply the sharpness and physical strength of the blade, and the name the female Hunter gave her ability was "Sharp Blade."

This explained why she could easily cut through Huangfu Sha's rugged combat uniform with an ordinary small sickle.

"Sharp Blade" could be used with Sun Hang's metal manipulation abilities, serving as an auxiliary skill, but viewed separately, it's nothing more than the vestiges of another ability.

The reason is simple—during the era of cold weapons, this ability might have created a formidable fighter, but the issue is... "Sir, the times have changed."

Beyond seven steps, the gun's fast; within seven steps, the gun's both accurate and fast.

Huangfu Sha's attack was entirely due to being caught off guard—if she had fired from the start, the crazy female Hunter wouldn't have had a chance to get close.

...

As Sun Hang slowly digested the "Sharp Blade" memetic imprints, fragmented memories began to surface in his mind.

He witnessed a confrontation.

After entering the ruins, the Angsa Hunters encountered internal conflicts. They seemed to have some prior knowledge of the "curse" here and prepared a Hunter with a "Shield Curse" ability.

However, after arriving, this Hunter discovered their ability only allowed them to bring two people deeper into the ruins, unable to ensure everyone's safety.

The Angsa Hunters avoided interacting with the Indian Hunters, engaging in discussions within this house, which quickly escalated into a quarrel.

Each one desired to enter the underground of the research institute; despite not openly stating what lay below, the significance of that place was far above trial points.

Indeed, the Angsa Hunters had obtained "exclusive intel" unknown to Sun Hang and even Dubhe Tower.

Their purpose for coming to the island was not for the ascending trial.

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